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WANTED: CHOSEN ONE, NOW HIRING is away to its readers. I am anxious for their responses. I'm very pleased with how this story turned out, and I'm anxious to start querying agents (though I have the usual fears that my query is not good enough--and the combined fear of agents dismissing the work solely on word count. Fantasy novels are, by genre,
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If I waited until my first chapter didn’t suck the big one to go on with a first draft, I would never have finished a single book, let alone the several I have collecting dust. I tend to do a lot of thrashing about when I start a story, unsure how to begin. I usually start the story earlier than I know it’s going to, just to allow myself some room to get into the flow of the story without totally botching the start of the story. If the first chapter STILL sucks after that, I pretend it doesn’t and move on into the story. Most of the time the first chapter changes after I am done writing anyway.
However, this is all just me, and I am sure you are well versed in your own writing process. All I can say is maybe try to skip ahead, or if that doesn’t work for you, remember one very important fact: first drafts are shit. They always, always are. They are never as good as we hoped they would be. First drafts exist to give us a bit of form for the second, better draft.
Good luck!
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I'm okay with my first chapter being average. I might even tolerate mediocre. But it will not suck! It must get its shit in order if it wants a chapter 2 to hang out with. If nothing else, it could just lie about being good so I wouldn't notice until revision. But OH no, it just had to dance around and say, "look at me, I suck! Ha ha ha ha!" and we just can't have that.
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